DanChiribuca
President of the Romanian Society of Sociologists (2009-2010),
vice-president (2010-219), he is a professor of Sociology at theFaculty of Sociology and Social Work of the Babes Bolyai University,
Dean between 2008 and 2012, director of the Center for University
Development and Quality Management (2012-2018), as well as theresearch director of the Institute for the Social Studies MetroMedia Transilvania (1998-2005). The main research interests are in
the fields of research methodology, communication and media. He
has directed or coordinated more than 65 research projects fornational and international beneficiaries, most of them opinion polls,
market studies, social impact assessments, social inclusion andmedia audience studies.

MonikaMeltzer
Dr. Monika Meltzer is a Research assistant at the Faculty ofEnvironmental Science and Engineering, Babeș-Bolyai University,Romania.
She obtained a BSc in Journalism and a PhD in Environmental
Science from Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania. Monika has over a
decade of interdisciplinary research experience in areas such as
disaster risk communication, environmental risk assessment,
disaster risk reduction, and, more recently, citizen science. She has
also conducted social media research. Monika has worked on
various research projects, many related to target group-oriented
risk communication and science outreach. She recently worked as
an expert for the World Bank, providing recommendations
regarding risk communication and awareness raising for Romania’s
National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy 2023-2025.

Kaniska
SinghKaniska Singh is a PhD researcher at the Ashank Desai Centre for
Policy Studies at IIT Bombay, India. She holds her Master’s and M
Phil degree in Social work from the University of Delhi. Currently,
she is conducting research in the Kosi river plains in North Bihar, aregion infamous for its riverine flood-prone topography. She isstudying the relationship between the flood policy process and thereproduction of flood vulnerability for marginalised groups.
Her research interests are disaster policy & governance process,last-mile early warning systems, power relations & politics indisaster governance and disaster justice. Previously, she
contributed to a project called “ Voices of Disaster: narratives andRepresentation Following the Kerala floods of August 2018” withUEA, IIHS and IIT Bombay as a researcher.
She was also a part of the CNDS Summer School at Uppsala
University, Sweden.

Tanu
Gupta
Tanu Gupta is a researcher with a strong academic background inDisaster Management and Mitigation, having completed herM.Tech. degree at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in
2019. Currently, She is pursuing her Ph.D. at the same institution,with a primary focus on exploring various dimensions ofInformation and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Disaster
Risk Reduction.
Her current research is dedicated to developing rapid and efficient
responses to natural disasters by harnessing the potential of social
media data. Alongside this, She has a profound interest inleveraging big data, machine learning, and technology to tackle
real-world challenges. Her work is guided by the purpose ofproviding critical information to decision-makers, particularly
during disasters, to facilitate informed and timely actions.

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